First-Year Information
F.Y.I.: First-Year Information
Orientation Schedule for All New First-Year and Transfer Students
August 21 - 24, 2009
Welcome to Albion College! As your dean of students, I want to let you know that you will be successful at Albion and that your success begins with our First-Year Information program or F.Y.I.
This site explains what you'll be doing during F.Y.I. and your first three days on campus. As a new student, whether you are a first-year or transfer student, you will begin to be totally immersed in college life. Albion is a special place, and the F.Y.I. program will orient and acclimate you to your new home and what Albion expects of you.
As you go through F.Y.I., please take time to imagine all the possibilities that await you. How will you and your friends at Albion make a difference? You stand poised to make a real and positive difference in one another's lives, the College, and the City of Albion. Go for it! Faculty, Staff, and Returning students welcome your challenge to grow, learn, and improve along with you.
See you around Campus!
Dr. Sally Walker
Vice President for Student Affairs
Dean of Students
| Friday, August 21, 2009 | ||
| 8 am - 3 pm | Residence Hall Check-In for New Students | Residence Halls |
| 8:30 am - 3 pm | Student Health Services Open (Immunizations Available) |
Student Health Services |
| 11:30 am - 1 pm | Lunch | Baldwin Hall |
| 3:30 - 4:30 pm | New Student Floor Meetings, Commuter and Transfer Meeting |
Residence Hall Floors Bobbitt Hall Room 113 |
| 4:30 - 6 pm | Matriculation Ceremony | Goodrich Chapel |
| 6 - 7 pm | Dinner | Quad |
| 7 - 8:30 pm | Residential Community Meetings Commuter and Transfer Meetings |
Residence Hall Floors Bobbitt Hall Room 113 |
| 8:30 - 10 pm | "Party with a Plan" with Randy Haveson |
Goodrich Chapel |
| 10 pm - midnight | Coffee House Night with David Campbell | Wesley Hall Lobby |
Saturday, August 22, 2009 |
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| 7 - 9:00 am | Breakfast | Baldwin Hall |
| 8:30 am - 3:00 pm | Student Health Services Open (Immunizations Available) |
Student Health Services |
| 9:30 am - Noon | Team Building with your FYE Seminar group and Team Building for transfer students (Wear comfortable clothes for outdoor activities. No sandals.) |
Wesley Hall Front Lawn |
| 12 - 1 pm | Lunch | Baldwin Hall |
| 1 - 2:30 pm | "You Don't Know Me Until You Know Me" with Dr. Michael Fowlin | Goodrich Chapel |
| 3:00 - 6:30 pm | Free Time Dow Center Open Whitehouse Nature Center Open Bookstore open until 4 p.m. Self-Guided Walking Tour, City of Albion (See City of Albion map in check-in envelope.) |
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| 4:30 - 6:30 pm | Dinner | Baldwin Hall |
| 6:30 - 7:30 pm | "Consent is Sexy" (First-Year and Transfer FEMALE students only) |
Towsley Lecture Hall (Norris 101) |
| 8 - 9 pm | "Consent is Sexy" (First-Year and Transfer MALE students only) |
Towsley Lecture Hall (Norris 101) |
| 9 - 11 pm | "Chocolate, Chocolate, & More Chocolate" (Buffet) and Kellogg Center Carnival (sponsored by Union Board) | Kellogg Center |
| Sunday, August 23, 2009 | ||
| 8 - 10 am | Continental Breakfast | Baldwin Hall |
| 10:30 - 11:30 am | First United Methodist Church Worship Service Information on Mass schedules and other interfaith worship is available through your R.A., or at www.albion.edu/chaplain |
Goodrich Chapel |
| 11 am - 12:30 pm | Lunch | Baldwin Hall |
| 12:45 - 2 pm 2 - 3 pm |
"Who Am I?" Academic Success and Discussion of the Common Reading Experience with Faculty |
Olin Hall Front Steps, Quad Side |
| 3 -9 pm | Free Time | |
| 4 - 7 pm | Dinner | Baldwin Hall |
| 7 - 9 pm | Bookstore's "Sunday-Funday" Event | Kellogg Center |
| 9 - 10 pm | R.A. Floor Meetings | Wesley Residence Hall Floors |
| Monday, August 24, 2009 | ||
| 8:15 am - 4:30 pm | Final Enrollment | Kellogg Center |
| 11 am | Business Bazaar | Kellogg Center |
